No ci skip here because let's see CI run w/new version numbers. I'm starting to think (again) this bump should happen immediately after the release instead of right before the next? But I know @wiredfool had some objection to this at some point. As a compromise, maybe we could change to 2.9.0dev immediately following the release of 2.8.0.
It made the PyPI listing page very long and requires a lot of scrolling to get down to the files, annoying for downstream packagers.
Instead it's linked from the README.
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When installing Pillow onto a Vagrant virtual machine with Linux as the guest OS, and Windows as the host OS, setup.py fails with the error "Text file busy." The temporary installation directory is a shared folder from the host OS, mounted in the guest OS, and the underlying Windows file system doesn't allow deleting the "multiarch" temporary file while a file handle for it is still open. This change closes the file handle once it is no longer being used, but before the file itself is unlinked.
Though I hate the 'dev' designation I want something to indicate master is where development for the next major version happens. I think we've previously disagreed on simply 'X.X.X' so I'm going with 'X.X.Xdev' to see if that is more palatable. :-)
The subprocess command in Python 3 returns a bytes object. If the
homebrew subprocess check returns a not-empty result, then setup crashes
trying to combine the bytes with the string constants with and error
like "TypeError: Can't mix strings and bytes in path components."